Re: Steering

From: Mark F1diddler <f1diddler_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:59:35 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "john_kagan" <john_kagan@...> wrote:
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> I agree with this direction. I believe the "altitude change" enforcement should apply to all potential violations.>>


Yes, we all seem to agree (here, anyhow) that steering for either attitude change or altitude change is bad. Therefore my dismay over a cultural trend that seems to trigger Mr. Zivanovic's call for some self-clean up. (Peer shame can be good thing.)

<<Ethics are difficult to enforce. >>

Unstated ethics are the only thing lending some success to the following steering "rule" (potentially having no teeth until it's too late.)

Rule: <<If, in a timekeeper's opinion, a model's altitude change is
approaching one half metre, or one metre for each 25 m of altitude
(whichever is larger) he will warn the competitor. Continued disregard
of the timekeeper's warning will result in a terminated flight.">>

Since this rule offers me one violation before receiving the timekeepers warning, why shouldn't I use that one freebie for an enhanced Cat I flight? Make one big pole steer either higher or lower(depending on VP setting,) receive my natural warning, then behave after that?

Answer: a shared ethic. Or what I hope is a shared ethic. But beginning to wonder.

OF course, good rules *should* take us there, too.
Mark F1diddler
Received on Wed Jan 20 2010 - 08:00:13 CET

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